VacationSelector

Monaco or Thessaloniki?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MonacoThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
MonacoThessaloniki
Score7355
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km504
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
MonacoThessaloniki
Score3950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1615
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
MonacoThessaloniki
Score3849
Museums within 10 km2334
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %3565
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 59 points.59
MonacoThessaloniki
Score867
Drinking venues within 4 km691,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9157
Nightclubs within 4 km761
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
MonacoThessaloniki
Score5365
Protected land share 50 km %2425
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5483
Park area within 2 km15 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
MonacoThessaloniki
Score3541
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km15 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 8 points.8
MonacoThessaloniki
Score6456
Notable places within 2 km15498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
MonacoThessaloniki
Score7472
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months39
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 30 m
€190-256
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 25 m
€120-160
NCE · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€86-115
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
€116-156
NCE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 50 m
€155-238
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureMonacoThessaloniki
Official languageFrenchGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation68 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoThessaloniki
City population38,857309,617
People per km²18,50316,042
Museums within 10 km1431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2945
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.